Melissa Harris-Perry: The truth about the Emancipation Proclamation

VIDEO - On Saturday, 'Melissa Harris Perry' revisited the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Lincoln, and for the enslaved people impacted -- or bypassed - by it...

New stamp celebrates Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Postal service has released a limited-edition stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp...

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

Brett Zongker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."...

Smithsonian exhibit parallels Emancipation, civil rights

Brett Zongker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Civil Rights were 100 years apart, but both changed the nation and expanded freedom...

Emancipation Proclamation copy sells for $2.1M

Verena Dobnik, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York auction for more than $2 million.

Obama's Juneteenth proclamation

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President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued a proclamation commemorating Juneteenth, the annual remembrance of the formal end of slavery in the American south.

Emancipation Proclamation copy set to be auctioned

Amara Omeokwe

theGRIO REPORT - A piece of African-American history that was once sold for just a few dollars could fetch millions when it goes up for auction later this month...

Day-Lewis as Lincoln on anniversary of address

Amber Leon

theGRIO REPORT - A leaked photo of actor Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of an upcoming Steven Spielberg-directed biopic of Abraham Lincoln appeared on Twitter today, 149 years following one of his most monumental speeches...

Blacks free to give thanks, even during slavery

Chika Oduah

theGRIO REPORT- African-Americans have long embraced the honored tradition of Thanksgiving, even during slavery...

Emancipation Proclamation to exit Oval Office perch

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, arrived in the Oval Office for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January...

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Emancipation Proclamation

Melissa Harris-Perry: The truth about the Emancipation Proclamation

New stamp celebrates Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

Smithsonian exhibit parallels Emancipation, civil rights

Emancipation Proclamation copy sells for $2.1M

Obama's Juneteenth proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation copy set to be auctioned

Day-Lewis as Lincoln on anniversary of address

Blacks free to give thanks, even during slavery

Emancipation Proclamation to exit Oval Office perch

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